Time to frustrate the pesky foreigners

With both Russia and Scotland flexing their muscles and threatening to harm our supply of fuel and other important commodities I got to thinking.......
We should definitely start extracting shale gas from the Forest of Bowland, of course their might be some damage caused but as far as I can see no Rugby League stadiums will be affected.
Now that we are producing English Whisky we ought to set up a distillery on Walney Island, that could give a replication of the conditions that can be found on Islay so we needn't worry about the loss of that vital resource.
Am I missing anything here?